Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 2-8.396

2-8.396

tenaivotsṛṣṭaṃ ca na ceti
atho yāvantyevāhānyutsṛjeraṃstāni saṃkhyāyopariṣṭādatirātrasyopeyuḥ
teno evotsṛṣṭaṃ ca na ceti
atha ha smāha bhāllabeya ukthānyevotsṛjyānīti
prajā vai paśava ukthāni
prajā eva tatpaśūnutsṛjante
atho yathā dṛtimpadocchvāsayettādṛktat
tadāhurutsṛjyameveti
prajāpatireṣa yatsaṃvatsaraḥ
tasyaite prāṇāḥ parvāṇi yatpaurṇamāsyaścāmāvāsyāśca
yathā ha vā idaṃ dṛtirabhidhmātaśśocedevaṃ ha vā eṣa prajāpatiḥ
paśūñchocayatyanutsṛjyamānaḥ
tadyatpaurṇamāsīścāmāvāsyāścotsṛjante'ṅgānyevāsya tatprāṇānparvāṇi
prasārayanti nennassaṃvatsaraśśuśucāno hinasaditi
tamīṃ hinvantyagruva iti śvo bhūte pratipadaṃ kurvīran
tadyathā dṛtimucchvāsitaṃ punarabhidhamettādṛktat
dhamanti bākuraṃ dṛtiṃ tridhātu sāraghaṃ madhviti saṃvatsaro vai bākuro
dṛtiryajñastridhāturbrāhmaṇāssaraghāsta evaitanmadhu kurvanti

'thereby it is both omitted and not omitted.
Moreover, having reckoned as many days as they might omit, they should perform them after the Atirātra;
thereby too it is both omitted and not omitted.'
Then Bhāllabeya used to say: 'Only the ukthas are to be omitted.
Offspring and cattle, indeed, are the ukthas;
thus they omit offspring and cattle.
Moreover, that is just as if one were to deflate a bellows by foot.'
Regarding this they say: 'It is indeed to be omitted.
Prajāpati, indeed, is this year.
His breaths and joints are these full-moon and new-moon days.
Just as a blown-up bellows would burn, just so does this Prajāpati
cause cattle to burn if not omitted.
When they omit the full-moon and new-moon days, they thereby extend his limbs, breaths, and joints, [thinking:] "Lest the year, burning, harm us."
On the morrow they should make as opening verse: "They urge him forward, the slender ones..."
That is just as if one were to blow up again a deflated bellows.
"They blow the bākura bellows, the threefold honey of the bees"; the year, indeed, is the bākura bellows; the sacrifice is threefold; the Brahmins are the bees; they make this honey.'